BRETT WHITELEY
1939-1992
Summer's Bay (1963)
Estimate $100,000 – $150,000
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE
BRETT WHITELEY
1939-1992
Summer's Bay (1963)
oil, charcoal and canvas on composition board
signed 'Whiteley' lower right
88.8 x 75.2 cm
- Lot Sold $100,000 (Hammer Price)
- $122,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
Mr Russell Drysdale, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1963
Mr Allen D. Christensen, California
The Christensen Fund
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1997
Fine Art Auction, Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 29 August 2007, lot 4, illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne acquired from the above
Exhibited
Brett Whiteley, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney, 10 April – 10 May 1963, no. 10, 'Summer Bay', (120 gns)
Paintings from the Collection of Allen D. Christensen, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 7-22 December 1976 , no. 50
On long-term loan to the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (label verso)
Modern Australian Painting 1920s-1980s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 9-20 September 1997, no. 35, illustrated
Art and Furniture of the 1960s, Charles Nodrum Gallery & Luke Design, 15 October – 7 November, Melbourne, 1998, no. 13, illustrated
Brett Whiteley, Gould Galleries, Sydney, 3 August – 3 September 2000, no. 4
Literature
Kathie Sutherland, Brett Whiteley: A Sensual Line 1957-1967, MacMillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2010, cat. no. HH16, pp. 77 (illustrated), 260
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